These days, Schatzberg stays in regular contact with Pacino and they often co-present screenings of “The Panic in Needle Park.” But Schatzberg has plenty of other activities keeping him busy, including working with his archivist on a new website to upload all of his photography work (with features early images of Bob Dylan, among others) and opportunities to screen new films. “We looked at each other, I got up, he got up, and we just hugged. “Then, I’m in a restaurant and he walks in,” Schatzberg said. The pair didn’t speak for almost three years. “I’m just about to go out and hug him and he walks right past me. “Two or three weeks later, I see Al walking towards me with a girlfriend,” Schatzberg said.
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He was just going on an ego trip.” Nevertheless, Schatzberg said he tried reediting the movie to meet Pacino’s demands, “but it didn’t work for me, so I said I can’t do that, it’s not what the film should be.” “I called Al and said, ‘What’s up?’ He said, ‘I think it needs editing.’ Everything he told me to do would put him on camera instead of off-camera. lot to watch the movie, he left without talking to Schatzberg. “I said, ‘Sure,’ and when he left, he said, ‘It’s not Al’s film, it’s the other guy’s film.’ I said, ‘That’s not true, but if you do believe that, don’t tell that to Al.’ He immediately went back and told that to Al, who called and said he’d like to see the film.” “First, his manager wanted him to see the film,” Schatzberg said. Schatzberg said that Pacino complained that “Scarecrow,” a road movie in which he starred as an enterprising businessman alongside Gene Hackman, didn’t give him enough screen time. By the time Schatzberg reunited with Pacino for 1973’s “Scarecrow,” the actor was a star - and more demanding as a result. It didn’t take long for the project to launch Pacino’s career: After Paramount screened footage for Francis Ford Coppola, the director cast Pacino in “The Godfather,” and the rest is history. “You could see that he was acting before. “We went backstage after the show, there was this totally different person,” Schatzberg said. Schatzberg was first exposed to the young actor’s talents on Broadway, and met him after one performance. In any case, Pacino’s jittery, combustible addict at the center of the movie dominates the spotlight.
I found out after the film that there was one character who a druggie and did shoot up during the film, but he didn’t interfere with it.” I made it very clear that I didn’t want any drugs involved in the shoot. “A lot of the actors already knew about shooting up. (The actual shooting up in the film was done with saltwater.) “Once I started researching I learned quite a bit,” Schatzberg said.
While he made his debut with 1970’s “Puzzle,” it was “The Panic in Needle Park” that allowed him to get close to his subject matter, researching the streets of New York and casting real heroin addicts to populate the cast. “I just felt it was so honest and that’s the way I wanted to work,” Schatzberg said. Schatzberg, who started his career as a photographer, was inspired to make movies injected with a visceral social realism after seeing “The Battle of Algiers” in the late ’60s. The movie, an adaptation of James Mills’ novel scripted by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, utilized a radical documentary-like aesthetic to capture the misadventures of Bobby (Pacino) and Helen (Kitty Winn) as a pair of addicts whose lives spiral out of control. Decades later, Schatzberg still has vivid memories of the movie and its dramatic impact on Pacino’s career. “ The Panic in Needle Park,” the gritty saga of NYC heroin addicts that introduced Al Pacino to the world, celebrated its 50th anniversary in July and receives a special screening at New York’s Film Forum this week in a 4K DCP restoration. However Schatzberg’s next directing gig shapes up, he has plenty of reasons to stay busy with the body of work he’s accumulated over more than half a century. Al Pacino Turned Down Playing Han Solo in ‘Star Wars’ Because He Couldn’t ‘Understand’ the Script
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